Howard Hughes — "...obtain a brand new knife, never used, to open a new box of Kleenex, using the…"

...obtain a brand new knife, never used, to open a new box of Kleenex, using the knife to open the slot. After the box is open you are to take the little tag and the first piece of Kleenex and destroy them; then using two fingers of the left hand and two fingers of the right hand take each piece of Kleenex out of the box and place it on an opened newspaper and repeat this until approximately fifty sheets are neatly stacked [which then made a covering for one hand when passing Hughes his clothes].
Howard Hughes — Howard Hughes Contemporary · Billionaire, extreme OCD recluse

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Detailed instructions from a memo to his aides regarding the handling of Kleenex for his clothes, illustrating his severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Date: Approx. 1950s-1970s

War & Violence

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